"Li Yiting: From Prodigy to Master" Chapter 18 Sealing Chess Chapter 18 Sealing Chess

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You may remember that in the 1958 national competition, Li Yiting once played a "valuable" game of chess with He Shun'an, when Mr. He staged several "catches and releases Cao" in the case of a great situation, allowing Li Yiting to escape Chenghe. And in the end, he won the world, and He could only yield to the second place. And now that the two are reunited, no one expected them to perform a wonderful drama that makes people feel a thousand emotions, just in response to the old saying: "Cheng ye Xiao He. Defeat is also Xiao He".

At this point in the chess game, He Shun'an has long lost the possibility of a champion, but he and Hu Ronghua have a teacher-student friendship, and now that he has no hope of winning the championship, of course, he hopes that Hu Ronghua will recast his glory. It is good that this game of chess can be won, but at least it is necessary to fight and draw, and it is also possible to drag Li Yiting for a point. The battle was really tense and tortuous. From 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Li Yiting clearly had an advantage. At that time, the sealing of chess was very strict, not only to seal the situation between the two sides, but also to look after the "sealing people", that is, let the referee take care of the chess players, whether it is going to the toilet or eating, there are people who follow them step by step, unlike the current chess, the chess players can move freely, and they can also go back to the room to ask people to dismantle the chess pieces together. There was no good way to think about it, so He Shun'an had to grit his teeth and stand firm, boiling up one step at a time. In this way, before fighting under the disadvantage to the second time, Li Yiting may also be tired after a long battle, and there is a soft hand, and the result is caught by He Shun'an, and finally skillfully constitutes a chess piece. This lost point was really fatal to Li Yiting, because there was still the last round left in the game.

In the 25th round, that is, the battle of the finale, Hu Ronghua, Yang Guanxuan and Li Yiting defeated Zhejiang Shen Zhiyi, Anhui Mai Luxing, and An Ji Zhang Yuanqi respectively, but Li Yiting could only rank third because of the big score of Hu and Yang, and the ranking of Hu Ronghua and Yang Guanxuan appeared dramatically: the two had the same points, and the match was a chess match, so they had to tie for the championship, and everyone was very happy. This is also the only time in the national tournament so far that it has tied for the championship, becoming a good story in the history of chess.

In 1963, for the same reasons as two years earlier, the national competition could not be played. In this year, Li Yiting became a family, and the following year he gave birth to a daughter, and he was immersed in the joy of heaven.

In the 1964 and 1965 national competitions, he won the sixth place, and in the 1966 Zhengzhou competition, he failed to enter the top six. After that, due to the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", all kinds of cultural and sports activities in the country were "banned", and the chess game was certainly not spared, and the national championship was suspended until 1974.

Chess was quickly attacked during the Cultural Revolution, as a product of feudalism, as an imperial general, a cow, ghost, snake god, and was quickly attacked, and in Wuhan, the most obvious example is the smashing of the chess club established by Li Yiting and the eventual dissolution.

For a long time, the club was specifically managed by Yuan And his wife, and it can be said that the couple made a living from it. At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", the Sports Committee also arranged to "sweep away the four olds", thinking about it, some people set their sights on the chess club, and a track and field coach named Zheng Dading took the lead in suggesting that the club be smashed.

The club was finally smashed, Yuan Qizi did not know the truth, and always thought that Li Yiting brought people to do it for the sake of political performance, so he held a grudge against Li Yiting, because "Li Yiting smashed his rice bowl". For a long time, Yuan Qizi said "bad things" about Li Yiting. Yuan Qizi has no fixed income, so he has to go to others to keep a paging phone, while his wife goes to work as a small worker, and of course his life is getting worse.

Once, on the way to work, Li Yiting met Yuan Yizi's wife, and she embarrassed him at that time, saying: "Li Yiting, I still have a fluorescent lamp tube at home, do you go to collect it?" Li Yiting suffered such a big wrong, many people who knew the truth advised him to go to Yuan Yizi to explain it, but he replied: "There is no way to explain this kind of thing." ”

A year after the Cultural Revolution, the Hubei Provincial Chess Tournament was held in Yichang, and li Yiting, as always, was in charge of the conference, and he asked Yuan Qizi to be the chief referee. Near the end of the game, Yunfang, a Yichang chess cane who had participated in the national competition with Li Yiting, wanted to invite some old friends to dinner at home to fulfill the friendship of the landlord. On the day of the invitation, Li Yiting, Yuan Qizi, Zheng Dading (also one of the staff of the competition) and others were invited to the scene, but Li Yiting left the staff house very early due to other affairs. Between the happy drinks, it is inevitable to reminisce about the past, to talk about some of the past, then Zheng Dading was happy, and he told the front and back of how to smash the chess club. It didn't matter what he said, but Yuan Qizi couldn't sit still any longer, and while he was surprised, he was even more embarrassed by his misunderstanding and hurt li Yiting over the years.

After the game, on the passenger ship returning to Wuhan from Yichang, Yuan Qizi found Li Yiting, sincerely apologized to him, and said guiltily: "I should not blame you for so many years, I always thought that you smashed my job bowl."

Li Yiting smiled: "I know, even your wife has blamed me." ”

Yuan Qizi said with emotion: "I thank you so much this time, if you hadn't invited me to be the chief referee, this knot might never have been solved." ”

In 1969, Li Yiting's originally peaceful life was broken, and he began a life of decentralization, working at the "May Seventh Cadre School" in Hubei Province, located in the ancient city of Jingzhou. All the cadres gathered here are cadres of the provincial organs. In the cadre school, to do farm work, mainly planting seedlings and cutting grain, the labor intensity is very large, for Li Yiting, such a weak chess player, it is more profound feeling. Li Yiting felt the most uncomfortable is planting seedlings, and at the end of the day, it was really a sore back carbuncle, and he couldn't stand it in all directions.

Li Yiting stayed in the cadre school for more than three years, and did not return to Wuhan until 1972, during which time he never touched chess again, on the one hand, he was not optimistic about the development situation at that time, on the other hand, because the environment of the school did not allow him to touch chess.

At the end of 1972, the national chess world, which had been imprisoned for a long time, finally got some recovery, and on national day of this year, a documentary celebrating the 23rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China was screened across the country, and there was a plot in the film that brought the gospel to chess workers across the country: At the garden tour of the Cultural Palace of the Working People in Beijing, there were famous chess players Fu Guangming and Zang Ruyi who were performing on a large chessboard. This clearly reveals a message to people: chess activities can be thawed. Taking this as an opportunity, chess activities across the country began to resume one after another.

The Wuhan chess world is not willing to be lonely and quickly moves. On New Year's Day 1973, marked by a public performance by Li Yiting and Chen Jinsheng at the Wuchang Workers' Cultural Palace, the chess activities in Wuhan were vigorously launched.

The national chess championship, which had been interrupted for eight years, was finally resumed in Chengdu in 1974, but at this time, Li Yiting, due to health and other reasons, had decided to bid farewell to the national chess world and no longer compete with the heroes of the world. Since then, Li Yiting, a giant of the chess world of a generation, has focused his main energy on cultivating and promoting young chess players and organizing chess activities.

In Hubei Province and Wuhan City, there are many people who have finally grown into famous chess players because of Li Yiting's help, teaching, and training, and it should be most appropriate to use the phrase "famous teachers out of high apprentices" to describe the characteristics of his later chess activities.

After returning from the May Seventh Cadre School, Li Yiting was assigned to the Wuhan Municipal Sports Committee. At that time, the provincial and municipal sports committees, which had been merged and operated for many years, began to engage in "separation of families", and the new municipal sports committees had just been established. When the family was separated, the Provincial Sports Committee had the right to give priority to selecting people, but Li Yiting could not stay in the Provincial Sports Committee, because the director at the time thought that chess did not need to engage in professional teams, only amateurs, so he was unwilling to accept Li Yiting.

When it was first established, the municipal sports committee had very poor conditions and did not have its own office space, so it had to rent a few houses in the municipal party committee guest house on Liuhe Road temporarily. Li Yiting, who returned from the cadre school, was assigned to work at the Cooperation Road Lighting Stadium, which is far away from the organ. This is actually a simple open-air basketball court, with seven or eight people on the staff, mainly engaged in mass sports activities, of course, the most engaged is to organize basketball games.